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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 3/9/26)
BRAVO: Top Chef (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD NETWORK: The Ultimate Baking Championship (Premiere) at 9pm
SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have agreed to extend contract negotiations into this week — likely the last extension before studios begin separate talks with the Writers Guild of America on April 16. If a deal isn’t reached, the SAG-AFTRA talks will pause and are expected to resume in June, after the studios complete scheduled negotiations with the WGA and the Directors Guild of America.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Senate unanimously passed the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0), which would strengthen privacy rules for users under 17. The bill, introduced by Senators Ed Markey and Bill Cassidy, would bar websites and apps from targeting ads using teens’ online activity and from collecting personal data from 13- to 16-year-olds without consent. Contextual ads based on site or app content would still be allowed.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Netflix is ending its partnership with Meghan Markle’s lifestyle brand, As Ever, less than two months after the streamer canceled “With Love, Meghan.” According to The Sun, the first to report the news, the split was “mutual.” Netflix still has a first-look deal with Markle and Prince Harry through their Archewell Productions. “As ever is grateful for Netflix’s partnership through launch and our first year. We have experienced meaningful and rapid growth, and As ever is now ready to stand on its own,” said a spokesperson for the brand.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Media mogul Byron Allen is continuing his expansion push, acquiring a 10.7% stake in Starz after the network’s separation from Lionsgate last May. Allen bought 1.8 million shares for $25 million from Liberty 77 Capital, an investment firm backed by former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. The move follows Allen’s pursuit of other major deals, including bidding discussions for Paramount Global – ultimately acquired by Skydance Media – and his interest in purchasing several linear networks from The Walt Disney Company. Allen’s Allen Media Group currently owns or operates 27 network-affiliate broadcast TV stations and 10 television networks, including The Weather Channel, TheGrio and HBCU GO.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Winners of the 33rd Annual Movieguide Awards, honoring faith and family content, included Great American Media’s “Timeless Tidings of Joy” for Best Television Program for Families, and “The Last Rodeo” for Best Movie for Families. For details, go here.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Netflix action thriller “The Night Agent” has been renewed for a fourth season. The order comes two weeks after the release of season three. Gabriel Basso will return as series lead Peter Sutherland for the LA-based shoot.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season 3 of the Netflix’s “XO, Kitty” will bring the story back to its roots with Lana Condor returning as Lara Jean Song Covey, Kitty’s older sister from the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” film trilogy.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TV5MONDE USA is launching “Génération F,” a 20-episode travel documentary series hosted by French pop artist Richard Orlinski, on Sunday, March 22. The lifestyle series, in French with English subtitles, will move to a regular Sunday slot beginning March 29 and stream on TV5MONDE+.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Paramount+ is bringing Garfield back to TV with a new 2D-animated series from Nickelodeon Animation Studios, reports Deadline. Voiced Lamorne Morris (“New Girl”), the show is inspired by Jim Davis’ classic comic strip following the snarky, lasagna-loving tabby.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Melissa Fumero has been cast opposite “Criminal Minds’” Matthew Gray Gubler in the upcoming CBS series, “Einstein.” Fumero will play a New Jersey detective while Gubler is a professor and the great-grandson of Albert Einstein.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Saturday Night Live UK,” based on NBC’s iconic late-night sketch show,will premiere on Sky on March 21. Tina Fey is reportedly hosting the first episode.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Final fall TV ratings show CBS leading broadcast networks, with “Tracker” as its top series when combining linear and 35 days of streaming viewership. Across all platforms, however, Netflix dominated: “Stranger Things” averaged 32.86 million viewers, followed by “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” and Paramount+’s “Landman.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Hoppers – $46 million
Scream 7 – $17.3 million
The Bride! – $7.3 million
GOAT – $6.6 million
Wuthering Heights – $3.8 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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